u/Qu90

Hallo ihr Lieben,

aufgrund der bevorstehenden Wahl hat man dann doch mal öfter einen Blick auf Wahlplakate und andere Wahlkampfsachen. Ich komme aus dem Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld (ja, bemitleidet mich) und mir is aufgefallen, dass die Linke extrem wenig Wahlplakate oder sonstige Informationen hier in der Gegend benutzt. Ich war am Wochenende zwischen Dessau und Bitterfeld unterwegs und konnte die Wahlplakate der Linken an einer Hand abzählen. Ebenso sieht es in meiner Heimatstadt aus.

Da frage ich mich natürlich, was ist da los? Woran liegts? Hat die Linke zu wenig Budget für sowas? Hat sie die Gegend aufgegeben? Empfindet sie diese Art des Wahlkampfes als nicht mehr zeitgemäß oder ineffizient? Oder lebe ich einfach unter einem Stein und bekomme nichts mit?

Ich persönlich lege keinen Wert auf solche Werbeaktionen, aber wenn ich selbst in Magdeburg mehr Plakate der Gartenpartei sehe als von der Linken, dann finde ich das schon etwas seltsam.

Was sind eure Meinungen und Aussagen dazu? Brauchen wir das? Ist das unnötig und andere Sachen wichtiger?

I just watched TNG S06E07 - Rascals and just thought that this type of discovery would have been revolutionary to mankind. Having the ability to rewind your age at any point while keeping your memory intact would have made humans practically immortal, with all the accompanying problems. But of course we need to reset the status-quo at the end of the episode and treat it as just another type of usual transporter accident.

So, what are some of your favourite revolutionary developments or discoveries in Trek, that we never hear from again or that are fairly undervalued?

Just recently I watched this episode and I really liked it as I'm a big fan of discussions about human progress and differences about simple living and high tech worlds.

When searching for possible colony planets, O'Brien and Sisko get stranded on a planet that already has a small human colony. These people are lead by a woman named Alixus and don't use any advanced technology at all. The reason for that seems to be some kind of energy field but also because Alixus has convinced the others that this is a better way of living. So our protagonists naturally clash with this system.

The episode is framed like a classic argument in low vs. high tech society. But I think that Sisko actually sympathises at first with their philosophy in part. The reason why he clashes with Alixus is not because of her core philosophy but because of how she implements it. She always talks about community but it is clear that she calls the shots here, that she is the main driver behind these ideas. It's especially problematic when she starts to implement authoritarian punishments for deviant behaviour. Even before we know that she deliberately engineered their "accident" we can clearly see that the whole colonies working structure is based on her ideas, not on some form of common decision.

I think that we would not have had such conflicts if it were shown that the colony actually acted in some communal effort instead of letting Alixus call the shots.

So when it finally comes out that she arranged this accident and planed to maroon these people to let them live in a society after her own ideas, we don't really get a pay off. That really bugged me. While she and her son get escorted away to await a trial, she clearly wins on moral grounds because not one single settler calls her out on having lied, manipulated and forced them into this system.

They talk about how they have more community because of Alixus but that's just nonsense to me. They could have had this community any time a small group of people forms a colony settlement. The low tech stuff is just a form of Alixus trying to impose her own ideas on how people should live and in a way to control them.

This episode also follows the classic Trek tradition of colonies always having one single leader. I think that's a very American way of depicting these things. Why would such a small group of people even need a single leader, why a leader at all? Anytime some unforeseen thing happens, these supposedly more developed federation citizens fall back on some primal hierarchy leadership thing. In this case it isn't even a good leadership but a pretty authoritarian. So I have a bit of a problem that the writers decided that not one single individual seemed to have a problem with this setup.

I do believe that this theme is actually way stronger than the apparent topic about low vs. high tech. If they would have wanted to depict this they probably should have incorporated the rest of the colony way more and showed that they are all really on board with that.

So, what are your views on this episode?